[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":210},["ShallowReactive",2],{"NoscriptNav_XrRK2e2e8meJ0jKVGkb5ULGQDVi3UiFQ9nupAr7Yns":3,"\u002Fideas\u002Fnvim-treesitter-burnout":8},["Island",4],{"key":5,"result":6},"NoscriptNav_XrRK2e2e8meJ0jKVGkb5ULGQDVi3UiFQ9nupAr7Yns",{"head":7},{},{"id":9,"title":10,"authors":11,"body":13,"canonicalUrl":194,"canonicalWebsiteName":195,"category":196,"date":197,"description":198,"extension":199,"featured":200,"fullWidthLayout":200,"image":201,"imageAlt":201,"location":202,"meta":203,"metaImage":204,"navigation":205,"path":206,"seo":207,"stem":208,"venue":201,"venueUrl":201,"__hash__":209},"ideas\u002Fideas\u002Fnvim-treesitter-burnout.md","Open Source Burnout Claims Another Project",[12],"vlad",{"type":14,"value":15,"toc":189},"minimark",[16,29,32,55,58,74,82,88,91,94,104,121,124,127,130,135,144,153,167],[17,18,19,20,28],"p",{},"On 2 Apr, in the\n",[21,22,27],"a",{"href":23,"className":24,"target":26},"https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fnvim-treesitter\u002Fnvim-treesitter",[25],"suplink","_blank","nvim-treesitter","\nissue tracker, a user was upset that the changes he wanted to see were not being made.",[17,30,31],{},"He angrily took this out on the maintainer, telling him to",[33,34,35,36,35,52],"blockquote",{},"\n\t",[37,38,41,42,41,48,35],"cite",{"className":39},[40],"cite--byline","\n\t\t",[43,44],"img",{"src":45,"alt":46,"width":47,"height":47},"https:\u002F\u002Favatars.githubusercontent.com\u002Fu\u002F58133782?v=4","sushtain's avatar",22,[21,49,51],{"href":50,"target":26},"https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fnvim-treesitter\u002Fnvim-treesitter\u002Fdiscussions\u002F8627#discussioncomment-16440673","shushtain on 2 Apr",[17,53,54],{},"\n\t\tgo switch to something that doesn't require interacting with people\n\t",[17,56,57],{},"The maintainer, having already been overwhelmed with issues and complaints from entitled users, replied",[33,59,35,60,35,71],{},[37,61,41,63,41,67,35],{"className":62},[40],[43,64],{"src":65,"alt":66,"width":47,"height":47},"https:\u002F\u002Favatars.githubusercontent.com\u002Fu\u002F2361214?v=4","clason's avatar",[21,68,70],{"href":69,"target":26},"https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fnvim-treesitter\u002Fnvim-treesitter\u002Fdiscussions\u002F8627#discussioncomment-16442595","clason on 2 Apr",[17,72,73],{},"\n\t\tOK\n\t",[17,75,76,77,81],{},"Now, the banner at the top of nvim-treesitter's\n",[21,78,80],{"href":23,"target":26,"className":79},[25],"GitHub page","\nreads:",[33,83,35,84],{},[85,86,87],"em",{},"This repository was archived by the owner on Apr 3, 2026. It is now read-only.",[17,89,90],{},"That's the end of nvim-treesitter. At least, for now.",[17,92,93],{},"But more importantly, we've driven away another person whose contributions we should cherish.",[17,95,96,97,103],{},"This is a regular occurence, as Miranda Heath's ",[21,98,102],{"href":99,"rel":100},"https:\u002F\u002Fopensourcepledge.com\u002Fblog\u002Fburnout-in-open-source-a-structural-problem-we-can-fix-together\u002F",[101],"nofollow","report on burnout in Open Source"," has shown us. We\ndon't know the full story of Christian Clason, the maintainer of nvim-treesitter. But we have stories from people like\nAshley Williams:",[33,105,35,106,35,109],{},[17,107,108],{},"\n\t\tI was doing nights and weekends, it was wrecking my health and I was just devastated, so after a while, enough\n\t\tissue follow-ups, like, “is this maintained?”, “are you gonna fix my issue?”, I had to say that I had to give it\n\t\tup.\n\t",[37,110,111,112,116,117,35],{},"\n\t\tAshley Williams, p 8 of the\n\t\t",[21,113,115],{"href":114,"target":26},"https:\u002F\u002Fmirandaheath.website\u002Fstatic\u002Foss_burnout_report_mh_25.pdf","\n\t\t\tburnout report\n\t\t",", and\n\t\t",[21,118,120],{"href":119,"target":26},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=gR2hjbh0RUk","\n\t\t\ton YouTube\n\t\t",[17,122,123],{},"Explaining these situations by referring to the faults of any individual person would be a mistake, because the problem\nis systemic.",[17,125,126],{},"Users of Open Source don't have enough educational resources to understand how to healthily and sustainably engage with\nthe maintainers they rely on.",[17,128,129],{},"And maintainers do not have the know-how, or the direct support, to care for their mental health when they're in the\nmiddle of a deluge of issues and PRs.",[131,132,134],"h2",{"id":133},"what-do-we-do","What Do We Do?",[17,136,137,138,143],{},"Miranda is working on a follow-up study of mental health among Open Source maintainers, as part of the\n",[21,139,142],{"href":140,"rel":141},"https:\u002F\u002Fstewardshiplab.org\u002F",[101],"Software Stewardship Lab",", a new non-profit working to make the global Open Source ecosystem more sustainable.",[17,145,146,147,152],{},"Are you an Open Source maintainer that wants to share their story? 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